Mr. Reuban Murray:

We saw in the UK a few years ago that they specifically invested in youth work services to tackle online misinformation and disinformation. We can have a similar strategy in Ireland. A lot of work is being done within schools and formal education to learn more about AI but the groups that are at most risk of the digital divide are the types of people Ms Fox talks about - those who are disadvantaged and young people such as early school leavers. It is important that they have a stake in this new technology as well. That is through programmes like the Dream Space programme we have been working on that aims not only to teach them about how AI works - the black box and the algorithms - but also to look at how you can protect yourself and how you can know what is wrong in the way a deepfake is wrong. That AI literacy piece is really important. If you want to make sure that the digital divide is bridged by AI rather than widened for vulnerable people, youth work is a fantastic space by which we can approach that problem.